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Juneau Self Guided Audio Tour Glaciers Trails and Gold

By Alaska Audio Guide
Free cancellation available
Price is S$65 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h 35m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

Step off the cruise ship in Juneau with a self-guided audio tour built by a born-and-raised Alaskan, not a faceless tour company. The Ultimate Juneau Experience bundles eight offline GPS tours — from Mendenhall Glacier and Nugget Falls to the Perseverance Trail, Mount Roberts, and a city centre walking tour past the Red Dog Saloon and St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church.
Here's how it works: you play the stories on your own phone. As you walk, GPS triggers each stop automatically and hands-free — phone in your pocket, glacier in your face. No live guide, no paper ticket, no rigid bus schedule. Because the Last Frontier runs on zero cell service, every tour works fully offline, no roaming required.
This is the Juneau the crowded bus tours skip: trails, gold-rush ruins, the bears working Steep Creek, the 2,000-year-old forest emerging from under retreating ice. You set the pace, and your money stays in the local economy.
Eight tours. Explore on your schedule, this trip and the next.

Activity location

  • Mendenhall Glacier
    • Mendenhall Valley
    • Juneau, Alaska, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • North Cruise Ship Berth
    • 254 Marine Way
    • 99801, Juneau, Alaska, United States

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Juneau Self Guided Audio Tour Glaciers Trails and Gold in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 4 hours and 35 minutes4h 35m
    4h 35m
  • Opening hours: Sun 0:00-23:59
  • English
Price details
S$64.57 x 1 TravellerS$64.57
Total
Price is S$64.57

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Access to all 8 self-guided audio tours of Juneau
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Unlimited lifetime access — use it as many times as you like, on any trip or to replay at home
  • What's includedWhat's included
    GPS-triggered audio that plays automatically and hands-free as you walk, hike, or drive
  • What's includedWhat's included
    In-app maps showing parking, bathrooms, Wi-Fi, and landmarks
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Written transcripts for every stop, plus multilingual translations
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Fully offline — audio and maps work with zero cell service once downloaded
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Optional attraction admissions, such as the Glacier trail fee (only applies to specific trails, most are fee-free, other areas are $5) and the Macaulay Salmon Hatchery visitor area. Paid on site
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Transport to and between the tour starting points
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Smartphone — you use your own device
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Headphones or earphones
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    In-person or live guide — this is a self-guided audio tour
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Cellular data or Wi-Fi

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Mendenhall Glacier

  • 45m
Juneau's most famous sight, a glacier you can walk right up to. As you arrive, a GPS-triggered audio storey plays automatically through your phone, covering the ice's dramatic retreat, the lake it carved, John Muir's 1879 visit, and the rock flour that turns the water that milky blue. Hands-free, at your own pace, fully offline.

Nugget Falls

  • 45m
A short walk leads to Nugget Falls, where water plunges hundreds of feet beside the face of Mendenhall Glacier. GPS-triggered audio plays as you reach the falls, telling the storey of the glacier's retreat, the icebergs on the lake, and the Arctic terns overhead. No guide, no schedule — just press play and walk.

Mount Roberts Trail

  • 2h
The hike locals actually do, climbing through rainforest above city centre Juneau. As you ascend, GPS-triggered audio shares the trail's gold-rush history, its rare ecosystem, and the priest who built the path. The tramway ride down is a separate paid ticket, not included in this audio tour.

Red Dog Saloon

  • 10m
A Juneau institution and a stop on the city centre walking tour. As you reach it, GPS-triggered audio plays the saloon's colourful history and the tale of the Wyatt Earp revolver that can't quite be Wyatt Earp's revolver. Listen on the street, hands-free — entry and any purchases inside are your own.

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church

  • 10m
A wooden Russian Orthodox church an Indigenous community paid for themselves in 1894 — and the reason why isn't the one you'd assume. GPS-triggered audio plays as you reach it, telling the real storey. Viewed from the street as part of the self-guided city centre tour; any interior visit is separate.

Alaska Governor’s Mansion

  • 5m
A stop on the city centre walking tour. GPS-triggered audio plays as you arrive, covering Juneau's improbable status as a capital no road can reach and the repeated failed attempts to move the government. Viewed from the public street, hands-free.

Steep Creek

  • 20m
  • Admission ticket not included
A short loop near Mendenhall where, from July to October, black bears fish for salmon and eagles gather overhead. GPS-triggered audio plays as you walk, explaining the salmon run and the food web in motion. Free to access, explored at your own pace.

DIPAC's Macaulay Salmon Hatchery

  • 20m
  • Admission ticket not included
A stop on the Juneau glacier driving tour where salmon return upstream. GPS-triggered audio explains the salmon cycle that powers all of Southeast Alaska. The hatchery's visitor area charges its own admission, which is not included in this audio tour.

Tongass National Forest (Pass by)

The largest temperate rainforest on the planet, surrounding the Juneau-to-Mendenhall corridor. GPS-triggered audio plays as you drive through, covering the forest, the wetlands, and the wildlife along the route.

Location

Activity location

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    Mendenhall Glacier
    • Mendenhall Valley
    • Juneau, Alaska, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    North Cruise Ship Berth
    • 254 Marine Way
    • 99801, Juneau, Alaska, United States

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